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Windows 7 Release Candidate

May 10, 2009

I doubt this is the first place you’re reading about it, but Microsoft released Windows 7 RC1. The release candidate will have a fairly long life as a free OS, running without any limitation until March 1, 2010 at which time it will begin shutting down every two hours. It will completely expire on June [...]

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Parallels 4 Released and Installed

November 24, 2008

Parallels recently released version 4 of their Parallels Desktop for Mac. I’ve been running Parallels 3 on my iMac and have three virtual machines configured. The first is Windows Vista Ultimate, the second is Ubuntu 8.04 Server and the third is a little used Windows XP Home virtual machine.
I purchased the upgrade and just [...]

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Apple Software Updates

September 25, 2008

I finally got around to applying to recent Apple updates to my iMac. I’ve been queueing them up starting with the iTunes 8 update. Part of the reason is I wanted to limit changes while I was recovering my Windows Home Server. But the main reason was I’ve come to expect problems when applying updates [...]

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Optimizing A Windows Vista Virtual Machine

September 14, 2008

The Team Fusion blog has an article about optimizing Vista on VMware Fusion 2. Since it’s from the VMware folks it’s titled as VMware specific, but it’s appropriate for any Vista virtual machine.
Suggestions include:

Disable System Restore
Disable Screen Saver
Optimize Power Management for Virtual Machine
Disable Windows Sidebar
Disable Remote Management
Run Windows Disk Defragmentation Utilities
OPTIONAL: Change to Classic UI

Disabling [...]

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Ubuntu 7.10 Server to Ubuntu 8.04 Server (Hardy Heron) Under Parallels

April 25, 2008

Even though I’m still in the middle of building my Ubuntu test server I decided to go ahead and upgrade it to Ubuntu Server 8.04 (Hardy Heron). Sure, I’m still learning all this stuff and this will make it harder to troubleshoot problems. Upgrade issue? My configuration error? Oh well, it’s all for fun [...]

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Installing Ubuntu 7.10 Server Under Parallels

December 29, 2007

I wanted to install Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Server as a virtual machine under Parallels on my iMac. Server has a couple of differences from the desktop version. The first is that the Graphical User Interface (GUI) isn’t installed which is my primary reason for wanting it over the desktop version. It’s all command [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #17: A Virtual Week

December 9, 2007

This week was almost all about Virtual Machines on the Quest. Parallels released a couple of beta updates and eventually the final production release this week. My biggest complaint about Parallels was that the Windows task bar appears in every space even when Parallels is assigned to one space. But the more I used [...]

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Parallels 3 Build 5582 Released – The Leopard Release

December 5, 2007

Parallels released build 5582 (RC1 was Build 5580) for Parallels Desktop 3 for the Mac which is the latest production release. I downloaded and installed the update, and I’m running Windows Live Writer in it now. The list of fixes is everything since the last production release so it’s hard to say what changed [...]

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Software Update: Parallels Desktop 3 RC Build 5580

December 4, 2007

Parallels has released Build 5580 for Parallels Desktop 3. It’s a release candidate for their Leopard compatible version. Since it’s still beta software it won’t appear in automatic update.
Parallels hasn’t run well for me since upgrading to Leopard so I’ve been installing the betas. The previous release, Build 5570, was basically unusable for me, but [...]

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Parallels 3 Beta Updated

November 26, 2007

Parallels has released Parallels 3 Beta Build 5570, it’s available from their beta download page.
Most of the improvements over the previous beta center around Leopard compatibility. I’d been having problems with Parallels under Leopard which had driven me to start using VMware Fusion almost exclusively. Most of my really annoying issues have seemed to revolve [...]

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Leopard: Time Machine Annoyance

October 29, 2007

Just as Time Machine was beginning to grow on me as a viable backup option I ran into my first annoyance. And it is annoying.
Until now Time Machine ran almost unnoticed by me. But tonight I had a Parallels VM open for several hours. The good news is that Time Machine didn’t seem to be [...]

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